Also naming Master Street between Broad Street and Carlisle Street as "Erika Alexander Way."

Also naming Master Street between Broad Street and Carlisle Street as “Erika Alexander Way.” WHEREAS, Erika Alexander was born on November 19, 1969 in Arizona to Robert and Sammie Alexander, and moved to East Mt. Airy in Northwest Philadelphia in 1983; and WHEREAS, Alexander graduated from Philadelphia High School for Girls in 1987; and WHEREAS, Alexander joined the New Freedom Theatre in North Philadelphia when she was 14, and was discovered by independent film company Merchant Ivory during the fifth week of a six-week summer acting class; and WHEREAS, Alexander’s first onscreen acting role was in a Merchant Ivory production, 1986’s My Little Girl, a lead role she earned after twelve screen tests and four auditions; and WHEREAS, Alexander graduated from Philadelphia High School for Girls in 1987 as a member of the 231st Class; and WHEREAS, Alexander would go on to perform in plays at New York’s Public Theater throughout the 1980s, touring the world with The Royal Shakespeare Company in Peter Brook’s groundbreaking play The Mahabharata when she was 17 years old; and WHEREAS, The Mahabharata reopened the famed Majestic Theater in Downtown Brooklyn, which is known to the world today as the BAM Harvey Theater; and WHEREAS, Alexander would receive her big break in 1990 when she was cast as Pam Tucker in The Cosby Show, appearing on the highly acclaimed sitcom until the show’s finale in 1992 that took her from Philadelphia to East New York, Brooklyn; and WHEREAS, Alexander would r…